Andrew Ntshabele
Multilayered Memories 2, 2023
Acrylic on vintage documents
201 x 298 x 4 cm
Each artist has used human imagery to respond to personal concerns, reflecting on community life, past inequalities, and issues around gender. They use their art to find redemption and renewal.
Reflecting Forward showcases works by Andrew Ntshabele and Morgan Mahape and it will introduce works by Restone Maambo and Fathema Bemath.
The artworks selected for this current exhibition are a variety of representations of the human figure, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Each artist has found an individual way to use this subject to reflect on issues that impact their lives. They are not simply looking back on memories or experiences but rather finding new ways to respond to contemporary life in South Africa. We live in a country that is heavy with history, and it is easy to be weighed down by our past and not consider a positive future.
These four artists however capture what people are currently feeling, the issues that we as South Africans are grappling with and trying to come to terms with – what our past was, how we need to acknowledge it and work with it, and where we are now heading, the fact that changes are possible; thus these artists are reflecting forward.
